It's been almost three years since I built my home theater PC. I adore that little machine; it drives all of our family entertainment and serves as a general purpose home media server and streaming box. As I get older, I find that I'm no longer interested in having a home full of PCs whirring a...

I build my Core i7 desktop about 2 years ago now and put 12GB of RAM in it. It sure cost a lot more than $299 for the RAM then.
CPU wise the speed of the machine seems fine. And I have hit 12GB of usage now and then.. Perhaps its time for 24.. Oh, and SSDs..

Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It's amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amou...